SAP on Azure

Quickly deploy SAP solutions across dev-test and production scenarios on the most comprehensive cloud platform—providing unparalleled performance for even the largest SAP and SAP HANA workloads.

SAP on Azure is your trusted path to innovation in the cloud

Microsoft Azure and SAP have expanded our partnership to help you accelerate your digital transformation with confidence.

A shared commitment built on trust

SAP is migrating its critical S/4HANA systems to Azure and Microsoft will enhance and speed up its financial analysis with S/4HANA on Azure. Running both businesses on this joint solution will help us better serve our enterprise customers.

HANA Enterprise Cloud on Azure

Run SAP S/4HANA in a secure, managed cloud and get the best in managed services for S/4HANA by SAP and the best in SAP HANA cloud infrastructure on Azure, with joint enterprise-grade sales and support.

“The strategic partnership announced between Microsoft and SAP is an extremely important development for the Coca-Cola System. The value of aligned engineering, sales, and delivery between these two strategic partners will allow our system to accelerate our digital agenda.”

Barry Simpson, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, The Coca-Cola Company

Bring cloud scale and agility to your SAP estate

Reliably run your mission critical SAP and other workloads on the cloud platform built for enterprises. Rest assured that your scalability, flexibility and compliance needs are met with Azure. With the expanded partnership between Microsoft and SAP, run a broad array of SAP applications across dev-test and production scenarios in Azure—and be fully supported. From SAP NetWeaver to SAP S4/HANA, Linux to Windows, SAP HANA to SQL Server, we have you covered.

"We acquired a supply-chain modeling solution, and we were able to spin up the necessary compute in Azure in literally hours. In our traditional datacenter model, that would have taken us weeks, since we would have needed to acquire and install a new server"

Get unparalleled performance for SAP HANA

Run SAP HANA on Azure with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud and get the best of both worlds. Azure provides best-in-class infrastructure and SAP provides end-to-end managed services for in-memory applications, database and platform. You’ll see the broadest choice and industry-leading performance when running your SAP workloads on Azure. Spanning Azure Virtual Machines and purpose-built hardware that’s specifically tuned for SAP HANA, scale your SAP HANA workloads up to 20 TB for OLTP and 60 TB for OLAP. Azure lets you run the largest SAP HANA workloads of any global scale cloud provider.

"With SAP HANA on Azure, we have the data intelligence to operate more efficiently across all aspects of our business and accelerate the delivery of finished goods to our customers. The Microsoft and SAP alliance provides us with assurance we need for our innovation in the cloud."

Hizmy Hassen, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Coats

Bet on the cloud that is engineered for the enterprise

With the broadest global footprint, largest compliance portfolio, enterprise-grade SLAs and world-class support, Azure provides a robust, resilient and reliable environment for not just your SAP applications, but also other workloads. We also offer a rich ecosystem of partners who can help you implement your SAP enterprise solutions. Bet your business on the cloud that’s designed for enterprise needs and join the 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies that already have.

"Microsoft and SAP are strategic partners helping us grow our wholesale and direct-to-consumer businesses. Their close alignment is an integral part of advancing our technical architecture and cloud strategy to better serve our customers around the world."

This architecture diagrams how to configure your infrastructure to run SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instance) that includes the Application Tier in an Azure Datacenter and HANA in the Large Instance Datacenter.